Reading QRCode with Zxing in Java

Question

Some questions about using Zxing...

I write the following code to read barcode from an image:

public class BarCodeDecode 
{
    /**
     * @param arg         


        

Answer 1

Please go through this link for complete Tutorial. The author of this code is Joe. I have not developed this code, so I am just doing Copy paste to make sure this is available in case link is broken.

The author is using ZXing(Zebra Crossing Library) you can download it from here, for this tutorial.

QR Code Write and Read Program in Java:

package com.javapapers.java;


import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import com.google.zxing.BarcodeFormat;
import com.google.zxing.BinaryBitmap;
import com.google.zxing.EncodeHintType;
import com.google.zxing.MultiFormatReader;
import com.google.zxing.MultiFormatWriter;
import com.google.zxing.NotFoundException;
import com.google.zxing.Result;
import com.google.zxing.WriterException;
import com.google.zxing.client.j2se.BufferedImageLuminanceSource;
import com.google.zxing.client.j2se.MatrixToImageWriter;
import com.google.zxing.common.BitMatrix;
import com.google.zxing.common.HybridBinarizer;
import com.google.zxing.qrcode.decoder.ErrorCorrectionLevel;

public class QRCode {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws WriterException, IOException,
      NotFoundException {
    String qrCodeData = "Hello World!";
    String filePath = "QRCode.png";
    String charset = "UTF-8"; // or "ISO-8859-1"
    Map hintMap = new HashMap();
    hintMap.put(EncodeHintType.ERROR_CORRECTION, ErrorCorrectionLevel.L);

    createQRCode(qrCodeData, filePath, charset, hintMap, 200, 200);
    System.out.println("QR Code image created successfully!");

    System.out.println("Data read from QR Code: "
        + readQRCode(filePath, charset, hintMap));

  }

  public static void createQRCode(String qrCodeData, String filePath,
      String charset, Map hintMap, int qrCodeheight, int qrCodewidth)
      throws WriterException, IOException {
    BitMatrix matrix = new MultiFormatWriter().encode(
        new String(qrCodeData.getBytes(charset), charset),
        BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, qrCodewidth, qrCodeheight, hintMap);
    MatrixToImageWriter.writeToFile(matrix, filePath.substring(filePath
        .lastIndexOf('.') + 1), new File(filePath));
  }

  public static String readQRCode(String filePath, String charset, Map hintMap)
      throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, NotFoundException {
    BinaryBitmap binaryBitmap = new BinaryBitmap(new HybridBinarizer(
        new BufferedImageLuminanceSource(
            ImageIO.read(new FileInputStream(filePath)))));
    Result qrCodeResult = new MultiFormatReader().decode(binaryBitmap,
        hintMap);
    return qrCodeResult.getText();
  }
}

Maven dependency for the ZXing QR Code library:

  com.google.zxing
  core
  2.2



  com.google.zxing
  javase
  2.2